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bradfa | on: AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
A small model would be. I think that’s more the point. It’s definitely not SOTA but it’s fast and energy efficient and local.
mdp2021 | parent | next
> A small model would be [mobile size]

A ~30mm side for the HC1 tech for an 8b model (still unclear the planned HC2)?

teaearlgraycold | root | parent
Is that analogue or are they baking floating points into the silicon?
AlotOfReading | root | parent
It's entirely possible they're using something like block floating point, where most of the hardware is simply fixed point. AMD's NPU does this, for example.
wmf | parent
Nope, a small model would be larger than the whole iPhone SoC.